A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is millions of times bigger than our sun! It ...

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...

I/ATLAS, comets, asteroids, quasi-moon and more. In 2025, scientists spotted several strange events and objects in the ...

NASA has completed assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, preparing for final testing and launch by May 2027 to ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

For instance, the Keck Observatory, co-owned by UC and CalTech, is among the most powerful astronomical instruments in the world. Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez utilized these telescopes to provide ...

A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...